Nina leads the cell biology program at Perlstein Lab. She earned her PhD in Pharmacology, specifically AAV gene delivery, from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Following her PhD training, Nina taught molecular biology and cell and developmental biology laboratory courses at Carnegie Mellon University as well as ran multiple summer research programs. She completed her postdoctoral training at UC Berkeley in synthetic biology on biosensor development and organism engineering for small molecular production. Passionate about education and lowering the barrier of entry for biology innovation, she is also the lead editor for BioCoder, an O’Reilly media publication.